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Conservationist - Planner - Writer Central Texas 💙 🇺🇸 * Pro-freedom * Pro-democracy * poweredxpeople.org
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What's really happening in LA

The name of this song/dance is "Payaso de Rodeo". Literally "Rodeo Clown"

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

In this week's comics, Tom Tomorrow compares a Trump tirade to the New York Times' coverage of that tirade. Read all the funnies: austinchronicle.com/comics

A man facing homelessness told me: “I was brought to Austin by the state. I know no one here.” He was paroled to a halfway house run by a private prison corp, Core Civic Only 8% of residents there are from ATX. TX releases former inmates to our streets & blames us for homelessness.

GOP Insanity #TxLege

Texas Republicans just passed a bill forcing every teacher to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. They passed it on the Sabbath… breaking the 4th Commandment. Maybe they should try following the Ten Commandments before mandating them.

The Texas House voted to criminalize & ban THC. Democrats fought to kill #sb3, but we don’t have the majority. It’s now on to the TX Senate & Gov. Abbott. Tell your friends. Weigh in NOW with your Senator & the Gov. It’s not too late to stop this backwards #txlege bill. jamestalarico.bsky.social

Abbott is inviting AI data centers to areas where there are already water shortages www.kut.org/energy-envir...